Congratulations to UW CNT faculty member Amy Orsborn who has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering (effective September 16, 2025).
Synaptech, CoNECT, and the UW Computational Neuroscience Center will host its annual Neurohackathon on May 16-18, 2025. Participants who want to complete a project should register by May 2, 2025. People who would like to judge or mentor should also register by May 2, 2025.
CNT IN THE NEWS
CNT faculty member
Kurt Weaver presented the keynote address during the 2025 University of Washington Brain Awareness Week Open House. Approximately 200 students from Issaquah High School and Newport High School attended the event.
After hearing from CNT co-director
Chet Moritz and his work using neural stimulation to help people recover from spinal cord injuries,
UW undergraduate student Mary Bun was motivated to pursue degrees in electrical engineering and psychology and study the neural mechanisms of fruit fly behavior.
CNT co-director
Rajesh Rao was interviewed by
The Times of Indianewspaper (April 18, 2025) about brain implants and the state of brain-computer interfaces.
